It's all about an official called Katherine Kerswell, who received a £420,000 payoff in June when she left the chief executive's job at Kent county council.
I wasn't afraid of losing, and financially I would have got a huge payoff.
Jana Bennett, the executive in question, was unaware her redundancy payoff was initially funded by the licence fee.
And when we get to the final payoff - "It's still difficult to say it; Mum, Dad, I'm a werewolf" - they'd still rather believe that he's suffering from some kind of mental illness.
The BBC agreed to fund a redundancy payoff of nearly £700,000 to a former senior executive using licence fee money, after she moved to BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm.
The point is that Europe is working together in a thrilling intellectual exploration that can have no conceivable commercial or political payoff but could, in some still intangible way, enlighten all humankind.
And, should we have failed, we suggested we would have been happy with a payoff of less than half of the £2m that had been given to get rid of Steve McClaren, Capello's totally unsuccessful predecessor.
#pmqs — George Eaton (@georgeeaton) May 7, 2014 Miliband's line for TV: "Why has the Conservative Party given up on millions of people who are Generation Rent?" #PMQs — Isabel Hardman (@IsabelHardman) May 7, 2014 PM fluffed that payoff and managed to say "their candidates are for Lent".
The mere prospect of a five-figure payoff makes the tournament a worthwhile obsession long after your rooting interest has been eliminated.
"The comeback country" – a payoff line that George Osborne has been longing to deliver for five years.
Given this sort of payoff, one bottle of Bollinger seems a bit mean.For Barclays, this is beyond embarrassing.
